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November 4, 2010
October 23, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 23, 2010
PMOI supporters brutally tortured in prison
Oct. 20, 2010
Political prisoner Afshin Baymani was harassed and violently abused on October 3 and was thrown in a solitary cell in cellblock 1 known as the ‘doghouse’ because he protested the violent treatment of prisoners by the head and assistant head of the Intelligence Unit in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.
Kermani and Faraji, the head and assistant head of this prison’s Intelligence Unit along with head guard Mirza Aqayi and another guard named Zinali took Baymani to the torture room with shackles and physically tortured him for a long period of time with batons, electric batons, and shockers. Ali Mohammad, the assistant head of this prison who was also involved in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners also mentally tortured this political prisoner. After this violent torture, Baymani was taken to a cell with intolerable conditions.
The guards did not let Baymani bring any personal belonging or clothes with him and since his transfer to this cell, he has only had the clothes on his back. Prison guards have also lowered his food rations and limited the number of times he is allowed to use the restroom to 3 times in 24 hours. Guards only answer with batons to the protests of this political prisoner…
This political prisoner was arrested in 2000 when he was travelling with his brother in Khuzestan. When they stopped at a checkpoint, security forces opened fire on them. His brother, Mehdi Baymani died on the spot and Afshin was injured. He was then detained and taken to prison. His pregnant wife was then arrested and kept in detention for a long time. This political prisoner was initially sentenced to death because he and his brother were supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran but after international protests, the death sentence was lowered to prison time.
Isfahan head of SSF: female cyclers are criminals
Oct. 20, 2010
The head of the State Security Forces in Isfahan said that female cyclers, card playing in parks, women playing volleyball or skating and singing next to the Khajou Bridge are all evident crimes.
“The police will deal harshly with the law breakers”, he added.
The head of the SSF stressed that police patrols are active in the city to control transgressions and said, “We have to control crimes by increasing patrols and police stations and separating the 110 patrol from the Prevention Police”.
Jailed female student banned from visiting jailed brother
Oct. 21, 2010
On Monday, the officials of Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj where student activist Shabnam Madadzadeh is jailed banned her and her brother who is also jailed in this prison from seeing each other.
According to reports, prison officials summoned Farzad Madadzadeh for an internal prison visit with his sister which usually takes place on Mondays but then cancelled the visit for unknown reasons.
Shabnam who was the political secretary of the Tehran Teacher Training University Student Association and her brother have been sentenced to five years of prison to be served in Rajayi Shahr Prison. A short time before this, in an illegal order by Ali Mohammadi, the assistant head of this prison, Shabnam was banned from all visits and telephone calls. These two political prisoners have not been allowed to use their right to a leave from prison since their arrest.
Shabnam and Farzad were arrested in March 2009 and after a year of temporary detention were finally sentenced to five years of prison to be served in Rajayi Shahr Prison by the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Mohammad Moqiseh who is known for issuing heavy sentences for political activists.
Intelligence agency refuses to release acquitted political prisoner
Oct. 21, 2010
According to reports, political prisoner Teimour Rezayian is still in detention two weeks after he was cleared of all charges and his release sentence was issued by a court of review.
This 50 year old political prisoner was acquitted two weeks ago in a court of review and was only sentenced to pay a 300,000 toman fine for having a satellite receiver in his home. But interrogators of the Intelligence Agency refuse to release him and are trying to keep him in detention under false pretexts.
Rezayian, who was a political prisoners in the 80’s, was arrested on February 7 when he was taken to a solitary cell in cellblock 209 In Evin Prison. After a few months he was transferred to cellblock 350 in this prison.
Rezayian was sentenced to 3 years of prison in a show trial on August 9 but was then cleared in a court of review. He was under torture in prison while innocent for close to year but despite all the pressures, they still refuse to release him.
Iran lashes 4 men in public
Oct. 20, 2010
The flogging sentence for four men was carried out on Monday, October 17 in the Central Square of Gonbad Kavous.
According the Kayhan state-run daily these men were Mehdi A., Ehsan R., Abdolaziz A., and Mojtaba Q. who were each sentenced to 74 lashed in public on charges of ‘disrupting public order, harassing people and citizens, intentional attacks with knives and destroying stores’. (Kayhan state-run Daily)
Iran throws ‘secular’ minded professors out of free universities
Oct. 20, 2010
The assistant head of the Free University said that a number of the members of the Science Committee of the Free University who have been proven to be secular minded have been identified and expelled.
“These members of the Science Committee who we had reports of were given notices but when they did not change (their attitude), we asked them to leave”, he said. (Mehr state-run News Agency)
Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)
Oct. 20, 2010
Political prisoner Afshin Baymani was harassed and violently abused on October 3 and was thrown in a solitary cell in cellblock 1 known as the ‘doghouse’ because he protested the violent treatment of prisoners by the head and assistant head of the Intelligence Unit in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.
Kermani and Faraji, the head and assistant head of this prison’s Intelligence Unit along with head guard Mirza Aqayi and another guard named Zinali took Baymani to the torture room with shackles and physically tortured him for a long period of time with batons, electric batons, and shockers. Ali Mohammad, the assistant head of this prison who was also involved in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners also mentally tortured this political prisoner. After this violent torture, Baymani was taken to a cell with intolerable conditions.
The guards did not let Baymani bring any personal belonging or clothes with him and since his transfer to this cell, he has only had the clothes on his back. Prison guards have also lowered his food rations and limited the number of times he is allowed to use the restroom to 3 times in 24 hours. Guards only answer with batons to the protests of this political prisoner…
This political prisoner was arrested in 2000 when he was travelling with his brother in Khuzestan. When they stopped at a checkpoint, security forces opened fire on them. His brother, Mehdi Baymani died on the spot and Afshin was injured. He was then detained and taken to prison. His pregnant wife was then arrested and kept in detention for a long time. This political prisoner was initially sentenced to death because he and his brother were supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran but after international protests, the death sentence was lowered to prison time.
Isfahan head of SSF: female cyclers are criminals
Oct. 20, 2010
The head of the State Security Forces in Isfahan said that female cyclers, card playing in parks, women playing volleyball or skating and singing next to the Khajou Bridge are all evident crimes.
“The police will deal harshly with the law breakers”, he added.
The head of the SSF stressed that police patrols are active in the city to control transgressions and said, “We have to control crimes by increasing patrols and police stations and separating the 110 patrol from the Prevention Police”.
Jailed female student banned from visiting jailed brother Oct. 21, 2010
On Monday, the officials of Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj where student activist Shabnam Madadzadeh is jailed banned her and her brother who is also jailed in this prison from seeing each other.
According to reports, prison officials summoned Farzad Madadzadeh for an internal prison visit with his sister which usually takes place on Mondays but then cancelled the visit for unknown reasons.
Shabnam who was the political secretary of the Tehran Teacher Training University Student Association and her brother have been sentenced to five years of prison to be served in Rajayi Shahr Prison. A short time before this, in an illegal order by Ali Mohammadi, the assistant head of this prison, Shabnam was banned from all visits and telephone calls. These two political prisoners have not been allowed to use their right to a leave from prison since their arrest.
Shabnam and Farzad were arrested in March 2009 and after a year of temporary detention were finally sentenced to five years of prison to be served in Rajayi Shahr Prison by the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Mohammad Moqiseh who is known for issuing heavy sentences for political activists.
Intelligence agency refuses to release acquitted political prisoner
Oct. 21, 2010
According to reports, political prisoner Teimour Rezayian is still in detention two weeks after he was cleared of all charges and his release sentence was issued by a court of review.
This 50 year old political prisoner was acquitted two weeks ago in a court of review and was only sentenced to pay a 300,000 toman fine for having a satellite receiver in his home. But interrogators of the Intelligence Agency refuse to release him and are trying to keep him in detention under false pretexts.
Rezayian, who was a political prisoners in the 80’s, was arrested on February 7 when he was taken to a solitary cell in cellblock 209 In Evin Prison. After a few months he was transferred to cellblock 350 in this prison.
Rezayian was sentenced to 3 years of prison in a show trial on August 9 but was then cleared in a court of review. He was under torture in prison while innocent for close to year but despite all the pressures, they still refuse to release him.
Iran lashes 4 men in public
Oct. 20, 2010
The flogging sentence for four men was carried out on Monday, October 17 in the Central Square of Gonbad Kavous.
According the Kayhan state-run daily these men were Mehdi A., Ehsan R., Abdolaziz A., and Mojtaba Q. who were each sentenced to 74 lashed in public on charges of ‘disrupting public order, harassing people and citizens, intentional attacks with knives and destroying stores’. (Kayhan state-run Daily)
Iran throws ‘secular’ minded professors out of free universities
Oct. 20, 2010
The assistant head of the Free University said that a number of the members of the Science Committee of the Free University who have been proven to be secular minded have been identified and expelled.
“These members of the Science Committee who we had reports of were given notices but when they did not change (their attitude), we asked them to leave”, he said. (Mehr state-run News Agency)
Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)
October 16, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 16, 2010
Iran arrests mother and sister of missing protestor
Oct. 14, 2010
The mother and sister of Saied Zinali were arrested in their home. Saied Zinali was a political prisoner who went missing when arrested in the 1988 Tehran student uprising. He never came home after being arrested in June 1999 and wherever his family followed up his whereabouts, prison officials said they did not know anything about him. It is still not clear what happened to this student 11 years ago.
According to reports, the Intelligence Department of the Revolutionary Guards Corps was responsible for the arrest of this young man. After the post election events, Mother Zinali once again asked that the head of the RGC tell her what happened to her son.
The Zinali family went to prison every week asking about their missing son. They wanted to know what happed to Saied and if he is still alive.
Security forces arrested Saied’s mother and sister after a raid to their home and confiscated their personal belonging including their computers.
The family and friends of the Zinali family, who were very sad about the painful faith of the son of this family, are now severely worried about the fate of this mother and sister.
Student prisoner banned from family visits and phone calls for expressing solidarity with her detained lawyer
Oct. 14, 2010
According to reports, the visits and telephone calls of student prisoner Shabnam Madadzadeh were cut off on orders of intelligence agency interrogators.
On Thursday October 24, her contacts to the outside were cut off because she supported her lawyers who were arrested and jailed.
Shabnam Madadzadeh went on a hunger strike in protest to the arrest of her lawyer Nasrin Sutodeh and the ongoing detention of Mr. Oliayi Fard. After her hunger strike, she was taken to the Intelligence Unit of the Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison where she was interrogated and threatened for hours.
The head and assistant head of the Gohardasht Intelligence Unit, Kermani and Faraji, interrogated Madadzadeh while putting her under pressure. They threatened her that they would add other charges to her case and would issue a heavy sentence for her warning that they would transfer her to Bandar Abbas Prison or Ahwaz Prison.
Birjand student refused university degree for participating in post-election protests
Oct. 14, 2010
Birjand University refused to give student activist Himan Khoshvaqt his university degree after he graduated last year.
Khoshvaqt finished his units in this university in 2009 and went to the university in 2010 to get his degree.
He tried in vain to receive his university degree but the heads of the Protection Department in this university announced that they would not give his degree because he participated and was active in the post election protests in 2009.
This is while Khoshvaqt says that all his activities which were related or unrelated to protests to election results were carried out outside of university and in all this time, he did not even set foot in his university.
Iran hangs 5 people in Isfahan
Oct. 13, 2010
The Isfahan Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor said, “Yesterday, five …. were hanged in the Central Isfahan Prison yard”.
“These five people were arrested by the police and were sentenced to death after a legal procedure and after their requests for amnesty were denied and were hanged yesterday in Isfahan Prison”, Mohammad-Reza Habibi added. (Fars state-run News Agency)
Detained lawyer of political prisoners needs urgent treatment for cancer
Oct. 13, 2010
Mohammad Oliayi Fard, a lawyer of political prisoners who is detained in Evin Prison’s cellblock 350 needs to be urgently sent to special medical center outside of prison.
Today at dawn, this lawyer who has been sentenced to one year of prison and is currently serving his time went to the prison infirmary because of his deteriorating physical health.
According to reports, the doctor in prison diagnosed a lump in his body as ‘blood cancer’ and said that he had to be checked by a specialist.
In light of his critical state, this lawyer who represented political prisoner in court has to be sent to a medical center outside of prison.
Dr. Mohammad Oliayi Fard was arrested on May 1, 2010 to serve his one year prison sentence on charges of propagating against the government by giving interviews (to the media) and is currently in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison.
Jailed student activist denied treatment
Oct. 13, 2010
Jailed student activist Majid Dori needs to see a specialist for the treatment of his illness but Evin Prison officials refuse to send him to a specialist outside of prison.
Dori is suffering from very severe headaches. The internal Evin Prison doctor told him one month ago that he had to be sent to a brain and nerve doctor and receive a MRI scan.
According to reports, he has still not been visited by a brain and nerve doctor. He is suffering from severe dizzy spells which sometimes plague him for up to 48 hours.
This student was banned from continuing his education and was arrested on June 15, 2009. He was sentenced to 6 six of prison to be served in Izeh Prison. In the past few weeks, Izeh Prison was changed to Ahwaz Prison. He is currently in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison.
State run daily says Iran has arrested 4 ‘Mourning Mothers’
Oct. 13, 2010
The state-run Iran daily reported that four members of the ‘Mourning Mothers’ group were arrested.
“Four members of the Mourning Mothers group were arrested while intending to go to Germany to see an important contact of the Monafeqin grouplet (PMOI). They were arrested after their contact with this group became apparent”, this daily said. (Fararou state-run website)
Juvenile political prisoner arrested at 15 still in prison after 15 years
Oct. 13, 2010
Jamal Amin Zadeh is a political prisoner who has been detained in the Gonbade Kavous Prison without any leaves or visits for more than 15 years.
According to reports, this prisoner was arrested when he was 15 years old and sentenced to life in prison on charges of being a member of a Kurd dissident party.
Amin Zadeh does not have any family members to follow up his case after his mother and father passed away.
He has also been denied of a lawyer in all of his trials.
Gonbade Kavous Prison lacks normal facilities and is used to detain non-political prisoners.
Iran arrests mother and sister of former detained protester
Oct. 13, 2010
The mother and sister of Hesam Tarmasi who was arrested after the election protests and was detained in Evin Prison for one year were arrested after security forces raided their home on Saturday night. Hesam Tarmasi was only recently released from prison.
He was arrested in a post-election protest march by security forces. After being released from prison, he came down with a kidney and liver illness and has been hospitalized ever since.
He was also attacked by unidentified persons and according to his family, the knife he was stabbed with was contaminated with an unknown poison and he contracted a blood infection.
His mother and sister were arrested while he was in hospital. His family was not involved in any political or social activities and the reason they were arrested is completely unknown…
Termasi is very concerned about his mother and sister.
Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)
Oct. 14, 2010
The mother and sister of Saied Zinali were arrested in their home. Saied Zinali was a political prisoner who went missing when arrested in the 1988 Tehran student uprising. He never came home after being arrested in June 1999 and wherever his family followed up his whereabouts, prison officials said they did not know anything about him. It is still not clear what happened to this student 11 years ago.
According to reports, the Intelligence Department of the Revolutionary Guards Corps was responsible for the arrest of this young man. After the post election events, Mother Zinali once again asked that the head of the RGC tell her what happened to her son.
The Zinali family went to prison every week asking about their missing son. They wanted to know what happed to Saied and if he is still alive.
Security forces arrested Saied’s mother and sister after a raid to their home and confiscated their personal belonging including their computers.
The family and friends of the Zinali family, who were very sad about the painful faith of the son of this family, are now severely worried about the fate of this mother and sister.
Student prisoner banned from family visits and phone calls for expressing solidarity with her detained lawyerOct. 14, 2010
According to reports, the visits and telephone calls of student prisoner Shabnam Madadzadeh were cut off on orders of intelligence agency interrogators.
On Thursday October 24, her contacts to the outside were cut off because she supported her lawyers who were arrested and jailed.
Shabnam Madadzadeh went on a hunger strike in protest to the arrest of her lawyer Nasrin Sutodeh and the ongoing detention of Mr. Oliayi Fard. After her hunger strike, she was taken to the Intelligence Unit of the Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison where she was interrogated and threatened for hours.
The head and assistant head of the Gohardasht Intelligence Unit, Kermani and Faraji, interrogated Madadzadeh while putting her under pressure. They threatened her that they would add other charges to her case and would issue a heavy sentence for her warning that they would transfer her to Bandar Abbas Prison or Ahwaz Prison.
Birjand student refused university degree for participating in post-election protests
Oct. 14, 2010
Birjand University refused to give student activist Himan Khoshvaqt his university degree after he graduated last year.
Khoshvaqt finished his units in this university in 2009 and went to the university in 2010 to get his degree.
He tried in vain to receive his university degree but the heads of the Protection Department in this university announced that they would not give his degree because he participated and was active in the post election protests in 2009.
This is while Khoshvaqt says that all his activities which were related or unrelated to protests to election results were carried out outside of university and in all this time, he did not even set foot in his university.
Iran hangs 5 people in Isfahan
Oct. 13, 2010
The Isfahan Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor said, “Yesterday, five …. were hanged in the Central Isfahan Prison yard”.
“These five people were arrested by the police and were sentenced to death after a legal procedure and after their requests for amnesty were denied and were hanged yesterday in Isfahan Prison”, Mohammad-Reza Habibi added. (Fars state-run News Agency)
Detained lawyer of political prisoners needs urgent treatment for cancerOct. 13, 2010
Mohammad Oliayi Fard, a lawyer of political prisoners who is detained in Evin Prison’s cellblock 350 needs to be urgently sent to special medical center outside of prison.
Today at dawn, this lawyer who has been sentenced to one year of prison and is currently serving his time went to the prison infirmary because of his deteriorating physical health.
According to reports, the doctor in prison diagnosed a lump in his body as ‘blood cancer’ and said that he had to be checked by a specialist.
In light of his critical state, this lawyer who represented political prisoner in court has to be sent to a medical center outside of prison.
Dr. Mohammad Oliayi Fard was arrested on May 1, 2010 to serve his one year prison sentence on charges of propagating against the government by giving interviews (to the media) and is currently in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison.
Jailed student activist denied treatment
Oct. 13, 2010
Jailed student activist Majid Dori needs to see a specialist for the treatment of his illness but Evin Prison officials refuse to send him to a specialist outside of prison.
Dori is suffering from very severe headaches. The internal Evin Prison doctor told him one month ago that he had to be sent to a brain and nerve doctor and receive a MRI scan.
According to reports, he has still not been visited by a brain and nerve doctor. He is suffering from severe dizzy spells which sometimes plague him for up to 48 hours.
This student was banned from continuing his education and was arrested on June 15, 2009. He was sentenced to 6 six of prison to be served in Izeh Prison. In the past few weeks, Izeh Prison was changed to Ahwaz Prison. He is currently in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison.
State run daily says Iran has arrested 4 ‘Mourning Mothers’
Oct. 13, 2010
The state-run Iran daily reported that four members of the ‘Mourning Mothers’ group were arrested.
“Four members of the Mourning Mothers group were arrested while intending to go to Germany to see an important contact of the Monafeqin grouplet (PMOI). They were arrested after their contact with this group became apparent”, this daily said. (Fararou state-run website)
Juvenile political prisoner arrested at 15 still in prison after 15 years
Oct. 13, 2010
Jamal Amin Zadeh is a political prisoner who has been detained in the Gonbade Kavous Prison without any leaves or visits for more than 15 years.
According to reports, this prisoner was arrested when he was 15 years old and sentenced to life in prison on charges of being a member of a Kurd dissident party.
Amin Zadeh does not have any family members to follow up his case after his mother and father passed away.
He has also been denied of a lawyer in all of his trials.
Gonbade Kavous Prison lacks normal facilities and is used to detain non-political prisoners.
Iran arrests mother and sister of former detained protesterOct. 13, 2010
The mother and sister of Hesam Tarmasi who was arrested after the election protests and was detained in Evin Prison for one year were arrested after security forces raided their home on Saturday night. Hesam Tarmasi was only recently released from prison.
He was arrested in a post-election protest march by security forces. After being released from prison, he came down with a kidney and liver illness and has been hospitalized ever since.
He was also attacked by unidentified persons and according to his family, the knife he was stabbed with was contaminated with an unknown poison and he contracted a blood infection.
His mother and sister were arrested while he was in hospital. His family was not involved in any political or social activities and the reason they were arrested is completely unknown…
Termasi is very concerned about his mother and sister.
Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)
October 14, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 14, 2010
The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 716
Downfall
Oil Company pays for Khamenei’s trip to QomOct. 13, 2010
Based on their informed sources media controlled by the minor faction of the Iranian regime disclosed that Iran’s oil company was tasked from Khamenei’s Household to provide the expenses for Khamenei’s trip to Qom in complete cooperation with Qom’s governor and the Revolutionary Guards Corps Imam Sadeq Brigade.
Reporters banned from being present in Khamenei’s visit with Qom’s clerics
Oct. 13, 2010
Khamenei banned reporters from being present in his visit with Qom clerics.
Nabavi, the head of the Khamenei’s publicity staff for his trip to Qom announced Khamenei’s plans and said, “The Leader will also have friendly visits with clerics and religious sources but without the presence of reporters”.
“The Leader of the revolution naturally makes trips to other provinces and therefore the analyses and speculations regarding this trip show the foreign media’s imprecision. In the time of the sedition they lied and claimed that clerics and religious sources had distanced themselves from the Islamic government”, he said trying to hide the rifts in the government and Khamenei’s lack of credibility among religious circles.
Nabavi called the lack of credibility of the head of the Islamic Republic and the fact that the people were not afraid of him ‘the differences of opinion between religious sources and the leader’ and said, “Some groups misused the events of last year and spread rumors and busied their supporters with them… In these groups and movements, inside and outside of Iran, supporters of the hypocrites united and caused sedition”.
Effect of Sanction
Oil minister of Ahmadinejad cabinet confessed the reduction of gas importationOct. 12, 2010
Masoud Mirkazemi oil minister confessed: due to the international sanctions, gas importation has been reduced from 23 million liter in the last few months to 800,000 liter.
Iranians rush to pull out money from banks and buy foreign currency
Oct. 13, 2010
According to reports from Tehran, from October 9, Iranians started pulling out their money from banks in Iran to exchange them to foreign currency especially the US dollar and rushed to foreign exchanges which led to a state much like that of last February.
People wait in long lines to get 2,000 dollars. Every dollar costs 1,060 tomans. In one of the foreign exchange shops in a north western street in Tehran, lines start from 9 am. At about 10 am they distribute forms, take a copy of the national card and money form their customers and give the dollars to customers from 2 pm. They tell their customers that they cannot promise that they will give them dollars and will only give the dollars in the order that the forms were handed in.
This condition shows the fear of the people that their money might get blocked which is a result of the decaying state of the Iranian regime and the probability of its demise in the near future.
Progressive rise in the price of plain tickets in Mullah’s regime
Oct. 11, 2010
Airways manager announced: Plane tickets will become even more expensive! Farhad Parvaresh said: increase of 30% in Plane tickets price have no relation with the law of tax, the increase in the price of oil, have risen the price of tickets.
Increase in repression of bazaar owners with security police of guilds
Oct. 13, 2010
According to received reports, mullah’s regime for repressing bazaar strikers, has established a new force called 'security police of guilds'.
Rahimi threatened bazaar strikers for serious clash with them
Oct. 12, 2010
ATI News wrote on behalf of Mohammad Reza Rahimi, they will take serious actions against those who want to make trespasses and disorders in Bazaar.
Crack within Regime
Some of heads of universities have been expelled from work because of their disbelief in veil law
Oct. 12, 2010
Supreme leader of the regime has put commission of literature in charge of implementing the so called law of veil.
Minister of Science in reply to the questions of the commission, has declared that the reason for the defeat of veil plan, was slender activity of some the university headers. He also mentioned the reason of expel and the change of some university headers was because of this matter that they didn’t believe in these orders.
Resistance
Protest gathering of water and electricity industry university students
Oct. 11, 2010
On Monday, 11th of October at 1130 in front of the university café, students of Water and Electricity University, held a gathering to reach their demands.
This gathering was for the invitation of administrative council of the university. This council will try to investigate the following problems:
-Closing down of one of university publishing place and reduction of publications
-Unsettled situation of education and bad behaviors of university employees.
-Unknown situation of university, to which ministry it belongs
-Unclassified situation of courses
-Bad status of food and health
Suppression
Prisoner to be hanged on Wednesday morning in Shiraz
Oct. 12, 2010
Judiciary officials have scheduled the execution of a man in Shiraz Prison on Wednesday morning.
According to reports, this man is from Dehdasht in Kohkiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad and his brother was also hanged on Saturday along with two other prisoners in Shiraz. Their bodies were transferred to Dehdasht for burial.
They were all charged with participating in the murder of two security agents.
Iran: 9 Executions including a woman during 2 days in Isfahan and Zanjan
Oct. 12, 2010
In a criminal act, 5 prisoners were hanged in central prison of Isfahan. According to the report of judiciary of Isfahan, one of the executed was a 32 years old Afghan man called Yaghoub. D. A day before, on the universal day struggle against execution, Judiciary system of Mullah’s regime executed 4 including a woman in the central prison of Zanjan. Mass execution of 7 prisoners in central prison of Kerman, a woman prisoner in Shirvan and two in Orumiyeh prison, have been other facts of this criminal and violated acts during 28of September till 7th of October.
Therefore the number of executed has reached to 20 in less than 2 weeks.
Regime is using increasing repression as the only way to stand against the growing crisis which is facing.
Issuing the anti-human sentence of cutting the hand of one prisoner in MashadOct. 12, 2010
Iranian regime has cut off a hand of a man in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad, the ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
ISNA said the hand was cut off in front of other prisoners.
Last July, Iran amputated the hands of five other people charged with theft in the northwestern city of Hamedan.
Also, Khorasan newpaper wrote on Tuesday 12th of October, this sentence was issued and done in central prison of Mashad today. (Source of news Fars state-run news agency and Khorasan newspaper)
It is worth to mention that because of increase of poverty inside Iran in recent years, robberies have been increased. Regime of Iran instead of solving the root of poverty and arrest the main robbers who are the members of this regime itself instead has started inhuman action against the poor people by cutting their hands.
Prison guards brutally attack Rajayi Shahr prisoners
Oct. 12, 2010
On Monday October 11 at about 9:30 am prison guards raided cellblock 5 in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison in Karaj and beat the defenseless prisoners. As a result of this attack a number of prisoners were injured. One of the prisoners who was violently beaten was Farhangpour Mansouri. He sustained injuries in his hand and feet. Head guard Naser Zaiem threatened this prisoner to death. The attack continued until 12 pm.
These guards also broke and seized the personal belongings of these prisoners. Close to 30 guards participated in this raid. This attack was carried out on orders of Kermani and Faraji, the head and assistant head of the Intelligence Unit of prison.
Iran bans student activist from education
Oct. 12, 2010
The Selection Committee of the Evaluation Organization announced that Saied Moradi Naqdeh, a law student at Gilan University who is also a student activist and the former head of the student publication, ‘Qupouz’, was banned from continuing his education.
According to reports, Moradi Naqdeh was active in the reformer’s campaign in the 2009 elections. He is also a member of the Editorial Council of the Chagheri publication and the Secretary of the Shahriar Association.
No news on detained high school student and blogger 25 days after arrest
Oct. 12, 2010
Twenty five days after the arrest of Navid Mohebi, a senior high school student in Mazandaran, his condition and health is unknown.
Sources close to his family say that his family is concerned for this student activist in light of the state of the Intelligence Agency Detention Center in Sari and the way this blogger has been treated.
Navid Mohebi was arrested by security forces on the morning of September 18 in his home in Amol and was then transferred to the Intelligence Agency Detention Center in Sari.
It is not clear why this blogger was arrested by security forces. He was reportedly brutally beaten upon arrest by security and intelligence agents in Mazandaran.
Mohebi is a student activist and a member of the One-Million Signature Campaign (advocating change in the constitution) who was summoned and beaten in the Amol Intelligence Agency after participating in a women’s day ceremony in 2009…
Mohebi is a senior high school student and was underage and unable to vote in the 2009 presidential elections.
Gifted student banned from continuing education to get master’s degreeOct. 11, 2010
The Intelligence Agency has decided that Farzaneh Jalali, who scored sixth place in the nationwide master’s degree exams in Iran, does not have the right to continue her education to get her master’s degree.
Farzaneh Jalali, anthropology major in Tehran University’s Social Sciences School was a student activist in this university and a member of the student’s Islamic Association. She was also in charge of the Sobh (Morning) student publication in this university for one year.
Jalali was summoned to the Revolutionary Court and Intelligence Agency after security forces attacked the university dormitory during post election events.
This student activist was banned from continuing her education even as the head of the Evaluation Organization announced last month that they did not deprive anyone of education because of their political activities.
Political prisoners in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison are forced to use polluted water
Oct. 11, 2010
According to reports, the water that political prisoners in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison use has been cut off in the past few days and when there is water, it is muddy and undrinkable.
To put more pressure and subject political prisoners to more limitations, they have almost been completely deprived of water in the past few days. The water shortage has also led to serious unsanitary problems for prisoners.
It is notable that the water political prisoners use in Evin Prison is provided from polluted water wells. This has also led to serious digestive and nephrogenic problems for prisoners.
Political prisoners are also deprived of warm water for bathing and are forced to shower with cold water. This is an ongoing limitation used to put pressure on political prisoners.
2 university students suspended for 2 semesters for political activities
Oct. 11, 2010After several large gatherings were held in Tehran’s Science and Industry University following the 2009 presidential elections in Iran, the Disciplinary Committee in this university sentenced Hamid Bidar, a fifth year computer engineering student and Navid Atayi, a fifth year constructional engineer student to two semesters of suspension from university. Their sentences were upheld by the Appeals Council of the Science Ministry’s Central Committee.
Iran’s public prosecutor warns political prisoners against publishing statements from prison
Oct. 11, 2010
‘If someone commits the same crime after receiving a sentence for the previous crime and is serving his/her sentence or has finished serving his/her sentence, he/she will be prosecuted and punished and this punishment will definitely be more severe’. Public Prosecutor Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejeie said regarding a letter by political prisoners sent outside of prison and a number of statements by political prisoners (published in websites). (Mehr state-runNews Agency)
61 post election protesters sentenced to prison terms
Oct. 11, 2010
Sixty Four people charged in the events of 2008 received their sentences in the last month. (Public Prosecutor) Golam-Hossein Mohseni Ejeie, said in a news conference, “From these (64) three were cleared of the charges and 61 people received prison terms from 6 years to 19.5 years”.
“These sentences are initial and the court of review procedures has still not ended”, he added.
“From those who were convicted, one person was sentenced o 19.5 years of prison, another person was sentenced to 15 years of prison and the rest were sentenced to less than 15 years of prison”.
“Some of them were also sentenced to social limitations and flogging”, Iran’s Public Prosecutor added. (IRNA state-run news agency)
Other News
Iran jams internet from mosques
Oct. 13, 2010
In the West Townships in Tehran, a few streets from the Milad Tower, the Abolfazl Mosque is used by Iranian regime to send noise and jam internet signals.
This mosque is one of the many mosques that have noise senders installed on them. Regime forces constantly change the direction of the noise.
Companies that provide internet services were not aware that the regime was sending this noise on the internet and were confused and thought that the problem was with their own systems.
It is worth noting that this mosque is also a Bassij base.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
October 11, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 11, 2010
Mullahs’ regime worries about exposure of secret information of nuclear programOct. 11, 2010
Salehi, head of Nuclear power organization, expressed his worry about the exposure of secret information and said: in past people used to reach news very easily but this is not possible anymore. It is not necessary for every people to know about everything. In past western countries used to attract Iranian specialists by suggesting education and better occupations outside Iran. Now the nuclear engineers of Iran have good residence and better education for their children.
Because of schism inside the regime, high ranks of the regime are afraid of even small exposure of news and information on nuclear power and they are looking for elements who try to pass news to others.
Strike of gold sellers continued on Saturday in Tehran, Shiraz, Hamedan, Babol, Ardebil and OrumiyehOct. 10, 2010
Despite pressures and treats of Mullahs regime, strike of gold sellers continued on Saturday in Tehran, Shiraz, Hamedan, Babol, Ardebil and Orumiyeh.
Gold sellers of Babol joined the strike from Wednesday.
Strike of gold sellers in Hamedan continues.
Gold Bazaar of Shiraz was closed on Saturday.
Gold Bazaar of Ardebil and Orumiyeh was in complete strike on Saturday.
According to reports, on Saturday, the first deputy of Ahmadinejad went to Bazaar and asked gold sellers to reopen their shops but they didn’t agree. Iron Bazaar and fabric sellers also joined the strike in Tehran Bazaar.
Brave youths of Isfahan welcomed 4th of November, the student dayOct. 10, 2010
The slogan which is written by aggressive youths in all over Isfahan is 4th of November comes, it is the end of khamenei’s life. It attracts the attention of people passing by. Another example, on a tree this slogan was written: Dictator be ready, 4th of November and 7th of December is coming
Slogan writings against the Mullah’s regime in Isfahan have increased by the start of October.
According to reports, students in Isfahan have welcomed 4th of November and 7th of December.
International Bank doesn’t give loan to Mullah’s regimeOct. 10, 2010
Minister of Economy in Mullah’s regime, attacked the international bank for refusing to give loans and said: International bank has prevented giving proved loans, but they get its profit from Iran.
Expulsion of regime’s representative in international atomic energy agencyOct. 10, 2010
Khorasan newspaper gave the news of expulsion of Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh, regime’s representative in international atomic energy agency and announced that Reza Najafi was replaced.
This newspaper wrote: Salehi, the head of nuclear power organization said: Najafi was replaced instead of Soltaniyeh , it may take time for his replacement. He added: najafi has worked for 20 years in this field and he is a right person for this position.
Oct. 11, 2010
The Incorporation Commission of the Iranian Parliament in charge of privatizing universities and giving them to regime officials who are known for plundering the country’s assets ratified the Fifth Program Bill and therefore another step in destroying higher education in Iran was taken.
This bill says on privatizing universities: “The government will be allowed to use various methods including surrendering education and research units to the non government sector or autonomously running these units and getting all or part of the expenses paid by students in cash or in installments to better run the country’s higher education system”.
It is clear that this measure which is against the benefits of the Iranian people is an excuse to hand over universities to regime officials or institutions like the Revolutionary Guards Corps under the name of privatization which will have very bad consequences including the fact that financially deprived students will find it harder to go to university. Also universities will turn into non credible institutions used for the trade of forging degrees.
Former RGC head calls Ahmadinejad a demagogue and backward thinkerOct. 11, 2010
Rezayi, the former head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps called Ahmadinejad a demagogue and backward thinker and said, “It is better that statesmen stay away from making decisions individually and self-centeredness, for if this is carried out knowingly, it is demagoguery and if done without knowing, it is a mental backwardness”.
He cited a small part of the Iranian regime’s shameful report card and said, “With the existence of more than 8 million criminal files in the judiciary, thousands of accidents that take place because automobiles made in Iran are not standard, not taking seriously the issue of health and not encouraging the culture of exercise in the county, financial problems like unemployment and high prices all show that statesmen are not in tuned with the expectations of the people in their planning”.
“Unfortunately today a group has blocked the path of the revolution under the name of supporting the Islamic Republic and another group is leaving the path of the revolution under the name of supporting freedom. They should know … one should not stop in the path of the Islamic Revolution and one should also not exit this path”, he added.
Iran Students Committee (Supporter of PMOI)
September 22, 2010
PMOI Supporters in iran Protest Ahmadinejad Presence in New York - Sept. 2010
The people of Iran and supporters of the PMOI show their protest to Ahmadinejad's presence in New York and his admittance into the UN by writing slogans in public places in various cities in Iran against regime officials despite all the dangers of prison, torture and execution.
Iran Students Committee - Sept. 21, 2010
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